Quote

Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.

Therese of Lisieux

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Therese of Lisieux
Right
Missing
Always
Single
Love
Small
Word
Kindly
Opportunity
Smiling
Making
Smallest
Look
Miss
Looks
Sacrifice

More quotes by Therese of Lisieux

Image
Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.
Therese of Lisieux
Image
Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.
Therese of Lisieux
Image
Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
Therese of Lisieux
Image
He [Jesus] has no need of our works but only of our love.
Therese of Lisieux
Image
The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much but to ask much of it.
Therese of Lisieux
Image
Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
Therese of Lisieux
Image
My whole strength lies in prayer and sacrifice, these are my invincible arms they can move hearts far better than words, I know it by experience.
Therese of Lisieux
Image
Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.
Therese of Lisieux
Image
If I am despised by the world, If it considers me as nothing, A divine peace flood me. For I have the Host as my support. When I draw near the ciborium, All my sighs are heard... To be nothing is my glory. I am the atom of Jesus.
Therese of Lisieux
Image
Time is but a shadow, a dream already God sees us in glory and takes joy in our eternal beatitude. How this thought helps my soul! I understand then why He lets us suffer.
Therese of Lisieux
Image
In that first 'fusion' with Jesus (holy communion), it was my Heavenly Mother again who accompanied me to the altar for it was she herself who placed her Jesus into my soul.
Therese of Lisieux
Image
Heaven for me is hidden in a little Host Where Jesus, my Spouse, is veiled for love. I go to that Divine Furnace to draw out life, And there my Sweet Saviour listens to me night and day.
Therese of Lisieux
Image
Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth they make us look higher than this world.
Therese of Lisieux
Image
What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?
Therese of Lisieux
Image
He does not call those who are worthy, but those whom He wills.
Therese of Lisieux
Image
As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.
Therese of Lisieux
Image
For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
Therese of Lisieux
Image
Why should we defend ourselves when we are misunderstood and misjudged? Let us leave that aside. Let us not say anything. It is so sweet to let others judge us in any way they like. O blessed silence, which gives so much peace to the soul!
Therese of Lisieux
Image
i can nourish myself on nothing but truth
Therese of Lisieux
Image
God has made me desire always what he most wants to give me.
Therese of Lisieux